21 Nigerian Chibok School Girls Freed

Boko Haram militants released the girls following negotiations with the administration.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson Mallam Garba Shehu says the terrorist sect Boko Haram has released 21 of the more than 270 female students kidnapped from a secondary school in the town of Chibok in north eastern Nigeria in April 2014. President Buhari said, “As I depart Abuja for Germany on an Official Visit, I welcome the release of 21 of our Chibok Girls, following successful negotiations.”

The release on Thursday, October 13, 2016 was “the outcome of negotiations between the administration and the Islamist militants,” BBC quoted Garba Shehu as having specified. The freed girls, he said were with the Department of State Services, Nigerian domestic intelligence agency. CNN   said the girls were taken to the Borno State capital, Maiduguri where they will meet with the Governor. The girls were not immediately named. The agency chief, CNN cited Garba Shehu as saying, briefed the government and has said the girls need to rest "with all of them very tired coming out of the process before he hands them over to the Vice President.”

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